Citizen Corps - Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) — Educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.

Citizen Corps

Preparedness & Response

Societal Effects

Info

General Audience

Coastal and Marine Geology Program — All 35 coastal States and the island territories experience coastal erosion. Balancing the competing needs of citizens, government, industry, and the environment.

Earthquake Quartet #1 — USGS seismologist Andrew Michael explores both music and audio playbacks of the earth shaking and finds new ways to learn about the earth, earthquakes, musical instruments and music.

Earthquake Science Explained — A series of short articles for students, teachers, and parents originally published as weekly features in The San Francisco Chronicle. This USGS General Information Product presents some of the new understanding gained and scientific advances made in the century since the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

USGS

Basics

Effects, Earthquake

Engineering, Earthquake

Faults - SS, DS, Thrust, etc.

Hazards

Paleoseismology

San Andreas Fault

Seismic waves

Trenching

Info

Middle School

High School

General Audience

Earthquake Videos and Animations — a wide variety of videos created by the Berkeley outreach team, which include earthquake simulations, earthquake safety videos, and presentations by their seismologists

Hilo Tsunami Museum — The goal of the Pacific Tsunami Museum is to promote public tsunami education for the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Region. The museum will also preserve the social and cultural history of Hawaii and promote economic development on the island of Hawaii as well as statewide. The museum will serve as a living memorial to those who lost their lives in past tsunami events.

Jules Verne Voyager and Jules Verne Voyager, Jr. — an interactive map tool that enables students and scientists to better understand the relationships between geophysical and geological processes, structures, and measurements with high-precision GPS data. These are Javascript based tools.

UNAVCO

Seismicity

Plate tectonics

Maps

Interactive

Graphics

Middle School

High School

General Audience

Elementary school

College

Kid's - ready.gov — activities and materials aimed at making kids more aware of hazard preparedness

Large Plate Puzzle (PDF) — cut a large world map into puzzle pieces along plate boundaries, students discuss individually land then for the whole map after the class puts pieces together; simple but powerful, discussion Q/A included

Living in Earthquake Country-Teaching Box — Explores how and why earthquakes cause damage, seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides, liquefaction, or structural failure.

DLESE

Damage from Earthquakes

Hazards

Effects, Earthquake

Education resources

Intensity

Lessons online

Magnitudes

Prediction

Seismic waves

Societal Effects

Graphics

Info

Lesson Plans

Middle School

High School

Living in Earthquake Country: A Teaching Box — 7 lessons with the goal of teaching students about how and why earthquakes cause damage. Explores seismic waves, the ability of scientists to predict the likelihood and severity of earthquakes at specific locations, the difference between magnitude and intensity, the occurrence of earthquakes along patches of planar faults, and the potential damage caused by earthquakes such as landslides, liquefaction, or structural failure.

NOAA Center for Tsunami Research — Research in support of improved measurement technology, design of optimal tsunami monitoring networks, improved models to increase the speed and accuracy of operational forecasts and warnings, and improved methods to predict tsunami impacts on the population and infrastructure of coastal communities.

Paleoseismology and the Hayward Fault — How paleoseismology is revealing information about the Hayward fault and its past. New technology being used. Photos from the Tule Pond trench on the Hayward fault.

Pillowcase Project, The — The Pillowcase Project is designed for use with 3rd
graders, age 8-9. The program has been reviewed by
3rd grade teachers and tailored to 3rd grade reading
skills and learning abilities. The program may be
adapted for use with students in 2nd and 4th grade.

Plate Tectonic Movement Visualizations — Visualizations and supporting material that can be used effectively to teach students about various geophysics topics. Visualizations include simple animations, GIS-based animated maps, paleogeographic maps and globes, as well as numerous illustrations and photos.

Quakeinfo.org — Things you can do around your house to prepare for an earthquake

QuakeInfo.org

Preparedness & Response

Info

General Audience

QuakeSmart — This site will show you how mitigation can work for you and how to reduce your risks in three steps: understanding what's at risk, making a plan, and getting the work done. Each step has a checklist to guide you.

Science Education Resource Center (SERC) — Whether you're an undergraduate faculty member or a K-12 science teacher our suite of partner projects have materials you can use today. Connect with a community of peers as they share what really works in their classrooms.

Theory of the Earth, The New — This is the only book on the whole landscape of deep Earth processes that ties together all the strands of the subdisciplines.
This book is a complete update of Anderson’s Theory of the Earth (1989).

Transforming California: Landforms of the San Andreas Fault — PowerPoint presentation of digital images (60.7 Mb) exploring the landforms found along the San Andreas Fault. Designed for classroom use with a complementing narrative for each slide. One of the many Earthtrip Virtual Field Trips to explore.

Understanding Earthquakes Makes for Messy Science — Earthquake processes typically occur tens of miles below the Earth's surface and over geologic time, away from direct observation. Earthquake science, in particular, is often subject to interpretation and bias.

USGS

Preparedness & Response

Info

General Audience

Understanding Quakes — description, photos, and graphics of earthquake basics and effects of earthquakes in Turkey

Who Dunit? and the Law of Superposition (PDF) — solve a crime, and then use those same skills to understand the Law of Superposition (older layers of the earth on bottom) with a fun WhoDunit? investigation and then use your skills to solve a geological mystery